Man Wrongly Convicted of Murder Will Get $15 Million From L.A. County
Franklin O'Connell has maintained his innocence for the last 32 years./ For more than three decades, Frank O'Connell had told anyone who would listen that he did not murder a maintenance worker named Jay French in an apartment complex in Los Angeles County. This week, the county's Board of Supervisors awarded O'Connell a $15 million settlement to end his civil rights lawsuit against the Sheriff's Department. "This is a bittersweet moment for me," he said outside the county courthouse, according to the . "I can now try to put the past behind ...
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